Xref: utzoo comp.ai:6526 sci.physics:12388 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!uunet!convex!schumach From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.physics Subject: Re: Quasicrystals and hidden variables (Chaos and AI) Keywords: finite discrete systems, periodicity, quasicrystals, QM Message-ID: <101254@convex.convex.com> Date: 8 Apr 90 20:25:27 GMT References: <6925@cps3xx.UUCP> <3142@usceast.UUCP> <54tJ025u963u01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <3161@usceast.UUCP> <39oH02W8981q01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <5328@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> Sender: news@convex.com Followup-To: comp.ai Lines: 5 See the article "Quasicrystal Clear", Sci. Am Jan 1990, which discusses the "entropic" theory. This uses Penrose tiles but without the requirement of matching rules or any non-local effects, and still generates quasicrystals with the usual non-periodicity and five-fold symmetries.